[meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers

From: Shawn Alan <photophlow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:30:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1314142232.92929.YahooMailClassic_at_web160120.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Hello Mike and Listers

Mike so your suggesting that you will be selling the Kenya meteorites for less then $20 a gram? still $20 a gram at that is $230,000 with with 15-20 grand invested in the trip and I bet you paid about a dollar a gram or less for the meteorites thats not bad at all. You make it sound like your loosing money.

Any whos if you make your money back and double that, thats still a killing which you will, not to mention I bet you will do trades for the meteorites as well. I know how much money can be had from new falls with meteorites and I think a few people on here can say the same. Not saying that what you do is easy, but money can be made from new fresh falls and you said your self....

"Real news will breaking in hours........
Get your checkbooks out."

and

" I may have
one or two larger stones available, 279~ g and 313~ gram 100% complete, but
not cheap!"

At any rate hunters like you and other make it possible for use and the rest of the meteorite community to collect. Thank you and glad you made it out to Kenya or who knows, they could have been rocks and nothing more.

Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBaystore
http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html





--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, "Shawn Alan" <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 5:08 PM
> Wow, it would sure be nice to ever
> see that kind of money. Sadly that is not even close to
> reality.
> Try it sometime and find out what is involved.
> Michael Farmer
>
> PS, why not go for $1000 per gram and net a billion?
>
> --- On Tue, 8/23/11, Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
> > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 4:54 PM
> > Hello Listers
> >
> > Way to go Mike :) on the recovery of the meteorites
> from
> > the Kenya fall... 11.7kg in total not bad. I did the
> math
> > and if you sold them at $50 a gram across the board
> thats
> > $585,000 even if you sold them at $25 a gram thats
> $292,500.
> > Thats not bad for a few days of work and about $15,000
> to
> > $20,000 in expense.
> >
> > I need to change my day job and fly to third world
> counties
> > and buy meteorites from the locals when meteorite
> falls
> > happen.
> > I wonder whats the going rate for compensation to the
> > locals for ordinary chondrities found by them? And I
> wonder
> > if they know how much they are worth? Cause I bet they
> can
> > be bought for pennys or a few bucks compared to finds
> in the
> > USA or else where in developed countries.
> >
> > At any rate, will be exciting to see what the
> > classification will be and if any new discoveries come
> from
> > this fall.?
> > ?
> > GOT TO COLLECT THEM ALL
> > ?
> >
> > Shawn Alan
> > IMCA 1633
> > eBaystore
> > http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
> > Jim Wooddell nf114ec at npgcable.com
> > Tue Aug 23 17:48:13 EDT 2011
> >
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> Hammers
> >
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> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > This is from Mike...
> >
> > Trying to get this to the meteorite list but tried
> more
> > than 30 hours ago
> > with no response from Art.
> >
> > This email is premature due to circumstances out of
> my
> > control sadly.
> >
> > I am announcing the recovery of over 11.7 kilograms of
> the
> > new Kenya
> > meteorite fall from 16 July, 2011.
> >
> > I saw the news of the fall on 17 July, and purchased
> a
> > ticket to Kenya about
> > 4 hours later. I arrived in Kenya on 20 July, and on
> the
> > morning of 21
> > July, less than 125 hours after the fall, I had more
> than a
> > kilo in hand.
> > Upon arriving at the fall location, I met a guy who
> knew a
> > girl who saw a
> > stone land only 5 feet from her in a coffee field
> while
> > working at ~10:30 am
> > when the explosions rocked the sky. It was cloudy at
> the
> > fall site so no one
> > saw anything, just heard massive explosions and then
> loud
> > whistling and
> > sounds that most described as gunfire.
> >
> > Moments after buying that stone, I went to another
> house of
> > a boy who found
> > a 777 gram stone in a coffee field about 30 minutes
> after
> > the fall.
> >
> > I stayed 9 days in Kenya, purchasing 10.5 kilos of
> stones,
> > including the as
> > of now main mass of 3.5 kg. The first stone that was
> > reported on the news
> > weighs less than 2.5 kg, not 5 kg reported.
> >
> > Most interesting about this fall is that it also has
> 3
> > seperate
> > hammerstones!
> >
> > First is a househitter that smashed through a metal
> house
> > roof. I paid to
> > have the rooftop cut out and purchased several
> fragments of
> > the meteorite,
> > including more on this trip.
> >
> > Second was a stone that weighed more than 350 grams
> which
> > went through the
> > roof of a greenhouse, and was witnessed by a man
> working
> > there, it smashed
> > into a metal growing table and exploded into hundreds
> of
> > pieces. I have all
> > of that one and the plastic hole where it was cut out
> to be
> > patched.
> >
> > Third is another greenhouse smasher from the same
> complex,
> > found only 3
> > days ago by workers moving plants out. It broke into
> > several pieces
> > virtually all of which Greg Hupe and I recovered. It
> has
> > been subjected to
> > high humidity for a month.
> >
> >
> > I have built a strewnfield map of all but 3 pieces,
> with
> > exact locations.
> >
> > I returned almost two weeks ago for round two with
> Greg
> > Hupe. We were able
> > to purchase only an additional 6 stones totalling
> 1150
> > grams.
> >
> > This fall is not thick, despite intense searching by
> > hundreds of people who
> > need the money very badly, they have found little.
> >
> > We hired 25 workers for the last two weeks, working
> from 8
> > am to 6 pm
> > scouring the bushland, cornfields, banana plantations,
> and
> > coffee fields,
> > without a single recovery from them. I hunted and
> walked a
> > great many miles
> > myself with no finds. This was a large fall but seems
> to be
> > very spread out
> > and large areas are either not huntable or are under
> heavy
> > cultivation as
> > harvest and tilling is going on now.
> >
> > I have already sold several large pieces of this
> meteorite,
> > I will have some
> > for sale, but less than 1 kg.
> >
> > I will be building a page about it in the next 48
> hours as
> > I am in London
> > now, on my way home. It is already in the lab under
> study,
> > thin sections on
> > the way and from my own observations I think this
> meteorite
> > will likely be
> > an L4 or 5.
> >
> > It has no brecciation or veining other than what I
> suspect
> > are some metal
> > veins seen from the outside, have cut nothing.
> >
> > Expect to hear more from me as soon as I get rested up
> and
> > get my site
> > ready.
> >
> > There will be little of this available, mostly small
> > fragments, I may have
> > one or two larger stones available, 279~ g and 313~
> gram
> > 100% complete, but
> > not cheap!
> >
> > Expenses were more than $1000 per day not including
> > airfare. Nobody works
> > for free in Kenya, to get them to move, money had to
> come
> > out.
> >
> > In their own words " I need to be properly
> motivated".
> > Heard that exact
> > phrase more than once.
> >
> > Michael Farmer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Meteorite Mania!" <meteoritemania at
> > gmail.com>
> > To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:04 PM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
> >
> >
> >
> > > Where is all the talk about the newly recovered
> Kenya
> > fall with
> >
> > > multiple hammers?
> >
> > >
> >
> > > The list should be on fire right now...and where
> are
> > the pictures?
> >
> > > We're itching to see fresh crust.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Well done Michael, keep up the good work.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Ty
> >
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